Wednesday 6th February 2013 - 11:27am

A six percent rise in the number of people sleeping rough has been condemned by homelessness charity Crisis.
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) today revealed that 2,309 people were reported by councils across the country as sleeping rough on one night in autumn 2012 - up from 2,181 in the previous year’s count. This is on top of last year’s rise of 23 percent.
Leslie Morphy, chief executive of Crisis, said: “In communities across the country real...